About michael
Michael Joseloff is a TV news and documentary producer living in New York City and winner of four Emmy awards. His work has aired on ABC, CBS, PBS and numerous cable TV networks.
He is also author of Chasing Heisenberg: The Race for the Atom Bomb (Amazon Publishing).
He has produced programs for the acclaimed PBS series FRONTLINE as well as a business-related documentary, crime dramas, biographies and reality-based programs for cable tv. Before that he produced hundreds of reports for The MacNeil/Lehrer NewsHour on PBS about current events, history, science and more.
Chasing Heisenberg
After a devastating run of German victories, Allied troops are beginning to halt Hitler's advance. But far from the battlefields, Allied scientists are struggling. Intelligence reports put them a distant second behind the Germans in a competition that could determine the outcome of the war: the race to build the world's first nuclear weapon.
For the Allies' top scientists, the race is deeply personal. J. Robert Oppenheimer, Enrico Fermi, and Samuel Goudsmit have known Hitler's chief atomic scientist, Werner Heisenberg, for years. A brilliant, world-renowned physicist and once a good friend, he's anti-Nazi but also a loyal German.
Fear that he's building an atom bomb haunts Oppenheimer and Fermi all through their months and years developing the Allied bomb. That same anxiety drives Goudsmit, now a top Allied intelligence officer, to risk his life as he attempts to track down Heisenberg and the site of Hitler's suspected atom bomb program.